Someone can be skeptical - say, what is so special about squid? But, seafood, in fact, delicious delicacy, and many Mediterranean cuisine can boast of their recipes for cooking fried squid. They were served in ancient Greece, calling it "winged fish." Today, squid is stewed, fried, canned and successfully served in the best restaurants. Interested? Now is the time to wonder how to cook fried calamari? We will give you a couple of secrets to make the meat tender and juicy.
In order to properly prepare the squid, you should observe only a few rules:
- If seafood is bought in a frozen form, then it must be defrosted in the air, or in cold salted water.
- Before cooking or cooking it is necessary to discourage carcasses so that the fillet does not shrink.
- The thermal processing of squid takes only a few minutes, only in this case seafood retain their flavor and nutritional properties.
Calamari fried with garlic
Ingredients:
- squid (frozen) - 1,5 kg;
- onion - 2 pieces;
- garlic - 3-4 cloves;
- salt - 1 teaspoon;
- vegetable oil - 4 tbsp. spoons.
Preparation
Before cooking fried squid, it is necessary, as mentioned above, to unfreeze them. Then, drain the water and clean the fillets from the film. We clean and cut onions with onions, fry in vegetable oil for about 10 minutes. For a couple of minutes until ready, add the chopped garlic. Then, in the frying pan, put the squid, cut into rings, salt, mix the ingredients and fry on high heat for about 2 minutes. After that we remove from the plate, cover with a lid and let it stand.
You can add mushrooms to the recipe: squid fried with mushrooms - an excellent snack. Mushrooms will need to be fried in a skillet and mixed with squid.
Calamari fried with vegetables
Cooked with vegetables, fried squid is a light and diet dish. Let's try to make it.
Ingredients:
- squid - 0.5 kg;
- tomatoes - 2 pcs .;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- zucchini - 2 pcs .;
- sweet pepper - 1 pc .;
- onion - 1 piece;
- basil - 1 bunch;
- white wine (sweet) - 0,5 glasses;
- salt, pepper - to taste;
- vegetable oil - to taste.
Preparation
Onion cut into half rings, and fry for a few minutes in olive oil. Add the chopped peppers and zucchini to the skillet, continue cooking 3-4 more minutes. Then, spread the sliced tomatoes, peeled, salt and add squids, previously peeled off the film and cut into strips or rings. Pour white sweet wine, sprinkle with spices, and almost before the end of cooking we put sliced garlic and basil. Remove from the fire, let us brew for about 10 minutes and can serve on the table.
Squids fried with potatoes
Ingredients:
- potatoes - 5 pcs .;
- squid - 1 kg;
- tomato paste - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- vegetable oil - 1 glass;
- flour - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- milk - 2 cups;
- onion - 2 pieces;
- salt, pepper - to taste.
Preparation
We clear the squid from the film and cut it into strips, then pan in flour and fry in vegetable oil. In the same way, on a separate frying pan, we prepare the finely chopped onions, ground in flour. Add here the tomato paste, diluted with milk (or water), bring to a boil and pour the sauce squid. Solim, add the spices and stew for another 20 minutes. Potatoes are cleaned and cut into strips, fry in a skillet, at the end of cooking add squids to it with sauce. The dish is ready.